Mozilla WebThings

Re:Mozilla WebThings by pygy_ on Friday April 19, 2019 @09:01AM (#19699202)

This actually respects the license. The person who provided you the binary (the phone vendor, not KaiOS) must provide you the source that corresponds to your program (not the git history). KaiOS must provide the source to the phone vendor on request off course.

That being said, this is the minimalist interpretation of the license, and not what is commonly understood as open source (where the repo is available somewhere, at the very least).

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Re:Mozilla WebThings by brazzledazzle on Friday April 19, 2019 @09:45AM (#19699538)

I wonder how difficult it is to get the source from the manufacturers. If it was trivial you'd think they'd avoid playing these games and just dump it as a tarball at the very least.

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Re:Mozilla WebThings by kevin_thibedeau on Friday April 19, 2019 @12:15PM (#19700717)

You just have to fill out the form in the disused lavatory next to the door marked "Beware of the leopard".

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Re:Mozilla WebThings by fabrice_d on Friday April 19, 2019 @12:31PM (#19700845)

See https://github.com/kaiostech

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Re:Mozilla WebThings by pygy_ on Friday April 19, 2019 @03:36PM (#19702344)

So the repo is available! Thanks, I took @omnifischer at face value.

Looking at the commit history, they keep on referencing bugs in a private tracker though (I know I'm moving the goal posts :-).

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